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As it happened, Clarence was then sitting in a luxurious parlor-car as a big west-bound train sped through the forests of Ontario, but his face was troubled and he felt ill at ease. A little more than a fortnight earlier he had met Marple at a Swiss hotel, and the man had informed him that Miss Gladwyne and Miss Hume had sailed for Canada.
Still, to do the fellow justice, he hasn't of late shown much eagerness to profit by his opportunities." Lisle mused for a few moments. It struck him that Nasmyth had described a very fine type of woman, which was quite in accordance with his own ideas of Miss Gladwyne. "What led Gladwyne to cultivate Marple and the Crestwicks?" he asked. "They're different from the rest of you." "I can't say.
This spark, with another, acquainted Marple how easy a thing it would be to rob the old man of a considerable sum of money. They readily came into the project, and accordingly it was put into execution; Marple and the nephew actually committing the robbery, and the other man standing at the door till they came out.
At the same time, I had my difficulties first of all to explain to the Marples why you didn't come. The reasons you gave didn't sound convincing." "They were good enough. It's probable that Marple understood them. Like most of my neighbors, I go once or twice in a year; his subscription to the otter hounds entitles him to that."
"I suppose I am," Millicent confessed. "Then won't you give me the reason? Your point of view isn't always clear to an outsider." "I'll try to be lucid. I don't so much object to Marple as I do to what he stands for; I mean to modern tendency." "That's as involved as ever." The girl showed a little good-humored impatience.
In this disposition of mind he suffered at Tyburn, being at that time about forty years of age or somewhat under. The Lives of WILLIAM MARPLE and TIMOTHY COTTON, Highwaymen
If necessary, he would tell her the part the man had played in Canada, though he shrank from doing so. "Marple and his acquaintances are not the people one would have expected Clarence to associate with," he continued. "Still, in my opinion, he's doing worse in making a friend of that fellow Batley. I could never understand the connection the man strikes me as an adventurer.
She had suffered during the few days that had followed her interview with Gladwyne and even the sharp encounter with Miss Marple in which she had recently indulged had not cheered her, though it had left her friend smarting. Presently she looked around with interest as a figure appeared farther up the road, and recognizing the fine poise and vigorous stride, she stopped and waited.
"He'd no doubt let you have the beast." "It's possible," Nasmyth agreed dryly. "But I've objections to being indebted to him; and I don't want Batley, Marple and Crestwick to take a hand in and put their money on me. However, we'll think it over." They retired to sleep soon afterward; and the next day Lisle walked across to call on Gladwyne, in a quietly determined mood.
Marple was mollified, and he fell in with Batley's suggestion that they should try a game. In the meanwhile, Crestwick looked around at his companion as they went down the corridor. "I believe I owe you some thanks," he admitted. "I like the way you headed off Batley I think he meant to turn savage at first and I wouldn't have been willing to draw in Gladwyne, as you did.
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